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Comparing appropriateness of antibiotics for nursing home residents by setting of prescription initiation: a cross-sectional analysis
BACKGROUND: The pervasive, often inappropriate, use of antibiotics in healthcare settings has been identified as a major public health threat due to the resultant widespread emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria. In nursing homes (NH), as many as two-thirds of residents receive antibiotics each...
Autores principales: | Pulia, Michael, Kern, Michael, Schwei, Rebecca J., Shah, Manish N., Sampene, Emmanuel, Crnich, Christopher J. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6000953/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29946449 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-018-0364-7 |
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